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Author Name: CHANDER MEHRA | Format: Paperback | Genre : Others | Other Details

My cousin Hira Lal Seth became my icon. He was 33, to my 13, in Lahore before the Partition, not just because he had written a couple of books, one on Nehru, the Red Star of the East, another on a Mexican, Viva Zapata, a militant. He was wise, lunatic wise, very fair, tall, athletic, spoke in whispers, lovely voice, kind of lullaby,like Kay Sarah Sarah. He hated his father, tycoon Roshan Seth, cruel wife beater, first wife Rani, Hira’s mom, my dad’s young fragile sister, died of TB and physical violence.

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CHANDER MEHRA

Chander Mehra, 83, journalist-editor-columnist- author. Hospitalized for seven years, he has worked in senior positions in India and Africa . He has survived through trying times during the regimes of African tyrants as well as during the Emergency in India. In one African state, he was detained without trial thrice because his commentaries were inimical to the dictatorial regime. Even today, he is a “Prohibited Immigrant” in the Immigration Department’s voluminous file on him. The manuscript of his book, Good Governance: The Great Debate, was seized by the special branch, and is lost forever. In India, during the Emergency, he was detained for editing the manuscript of Jayaprakash Narayan’s Total Revolution, an anthology of the since deceased Loknayak who needs no introduction Because of his struggle for emancipation from colonial rule as well as anti-people policies in post-independence India. Chander Mehra’s published books include: Corruption: Dealing with the Devil, and a novel Jihad Rediscovered, banned by some Islamic states.